On Monday 29 Aug 2011 18:58:26 Ian Clarke wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Matthew Toseland < > toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > Misrouting is unacceptable, in general. Extremely overloaded or extremely > > low capacity nodes may be routed around. We might even allow some bounded > > amount of misrouting in the more general case (e.g. go to either of the top > > two peers for the key). But in general, transforming load into misrouting > > (or into reduced HTL, or any other bogus escape valve) is a bad idea. We > > need to reduce the incoming load. > > Right, the same is true of queueing. If nodes are forced to do things to > deal with overloading that make the problem worse then the load balancing > algorithm has failed. Its job is to prevent that from happening. Not true. Queueing does not make anything worse (for bulk requests where we are not latency sensitive). **When a request is waiting for progress on a queue, it is not using any bandwidth!** -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20110830/88fda31d/attachment.pgp>
